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Historical Event on 12/8/1875

Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1987Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster.
9/29/1992Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned.
3/18/1991West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
11/23/1937Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl
2/23/1962Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.
3/17/1994Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants.
7/3/1991Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996.
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
7/28/1972India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.